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Trump derides Newsom and calls his UK deal ‘inappropriate’

Tue, 02/17/2026 - 6:15am
President Donald Trump said the "U.K.’s got enough trouble without getting involved with Gavin Newscum."

New Mexico Senate kills bill to codify climate targets

Tue, 02/17/2026 - 6:13am
Several Democrats joined Republicans to vote against the Clear Horizons Act, which was based on the governor's executive order to cut emissions in the fossil-fuel-heavy state.

West Virginia is ready to defend Trump’s climate rollback in court

Tue, 02/17/2026 - 6:12am
The state solicitor general cited West Virginia's landmark Supreme Court triumph over an Obama-era climate rule as one reason he expects EPA's endangerment finding repeal to survive legal challenge.

North Carolina judge rejects first-of-its-kind climate lawsuit

Tue, 02/17/2026 - 6:11am
The case was the first to ask an electric utility to pay to help communities respond to climate change.

EU leaders split on carbon price in push to bolster industry

Tue, 02/17/2026 - 6:11am
The EU Emissions Trading System has come under intense pressure from heavy industry for raising energy costs and contributing to plant closures.

São Paulo battles drought and floods together in climate paradox

Tue, 02/17/2026 - 6:09am
The crisis affected everything from restaurants to factories, some of which were forced to halt production.

As Trump shreds climate rules, China’s emissions start to fall

Tue, 02/17/2026 - 6:09am
The decline in China’s emissions, while small, may mark a turning point for the world’s largest polluter.

ECB fines Credit Agricole $9M over climate, environmental failures

Tue, 02/17/2026 - 6:09am
Key risks that the European Central Bank is monitoring include the financial impacts of extreme weather events on physical assets and supply chains.

EPA yanks attacks on climate science from endangerment repeal

Fri, 02/13/2026 - 7:06am
The agency relied on legal arguments to erase the basis for climate rules, ditching provisions that tried to poke holes in the scientific consensus on global warming.

Trump sidelines climate contrarians in science rollback

Fri, 02/13/2026 - 7:05am
The president has mocked global warming as a “hoax,” but his administration avoided testing that claim in court as it targeted the endangerment finding.

EPA invites Supreme Court to upend major climate precedent

Fri, 02/13/2026 - 7:04am
With its repeal of a scientific finding that requires greenhouse gas regulation, the agency has reopened a long-settled legal question over its own authority to act on climate change.

Republicans unmoved by endangerment finding repeal

Fri, 02/13/2026 - 7:03am
GOP lawmakers who engage in climate issues have been relatively quiet about the decision.

Offshore wind project targeted by Trump will begin operating within weeks

Fri, 02/13/2026 - 7:03am
Revolution Wind in New England is nearing completion after overcoming Trump administration efforts to halt the project.

Oil industry slams Hawaii effort to hold it liable for insurance hikes

Fri, 02/13/2026 - 7:02am
The state could become the first to sue fossil fuel companies for emissions that allegedly intensify disasters and lead property insurers to raise premiums.

Draft cap-and-trade rules draw opposition from labor over refineries

Fri, 02/13/2026 - 7:00am
The opposition exposes a fault line in the environmental, labor and business coalition that helped give California Gov. Gavin Newsom a major win on cap and trade last year.

Barclays says diverging global climate policy puts banks in bind

Fri, 02/13/2026 - 6:59am
The upshot is that “financial institutions may need to choose between financing growth and maintaining the pace of reducing financed emissions,” the bank said.

Von der Leyen and Merz clash over future of EU’s core climate law

Fri, 02/13/2026 - 6:59am
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz joined industry in attacking the EU carbon market as Commission President Ursula von der Leyen defended its “clear benefits.”

What if just 1 in 10 people changed how they eat, drive, heat or shop?

Fri, 02/13/2026 - 6:58am
The Associated Press looked at the impact on emissions if 10 percent of Americans changed four everyday behaviors.

Olympic mascots are color-changing critters vulnerable to climate change

Fri, 02/13/2026 - 6:58am
The mascots of these Olympics are stoats, weasel-like animals whose fur changes from brown to white for winter, to blend in with the landscape.

EPA repeals endangerment finding

Thu, 02/12/2026 - 1:36pm
The move discards a scientific determination that empowered the government to limit climate pollution.

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